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- According to a Newsday article, Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek began writing The Big Chill in September 1980, five months after the release of Return of the Secaucus 7 They wrote the screenplay as a semi-autobiographical story inspired by their optimistic political activism while attending college in the 1960s and then their disillusionment at society in the 1970s.
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The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams.
The Big Chill: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. With Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt. A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Lawrence Kasdan
- 1983-09-30
- EVERY STUDIO WANTED LAWRENCE KASDAN, BUT NOT HIS MOVIE. After writing The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lawrence Kasdan got a chance to direct his own script with 1981's Body Heat.
- KASDAN WROTE IT WITH HIS LAWYER’S WIFE. Barbara Benedek had written a handful of episodes for a handful of TV shows when Kasdan—who was represented by Benedek’s husband—called her up and asked out of the blue to write a script together.
- KEVIN COSTNER PLAYS A DEAD BODY. The entire movie revolves around the suicide of Alex Marshall, an unseen college friend linking all the other characters together.
- COSTNER ALMOST APPEARED IN THE FILM WITH A METAPHORICAL TURKEY. Costner’s cut flashback scene is famously part of the movie’s lore because of how famous he became.
Sep 25, 2023 · Many baby boomers in the early 1980s found echoes of their own stories in The Big Chill, directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, which deals with this very phenomenon. (And has one hell of an opening sequence.)
The others gather for his funeral and stay for a weekend in a big old summer house. We get to meet them: the intellectual, the failed writer, the confused TV star, the woman who wants to have a baby and can’t tear her eyes away from the biological clock.
Oct 26, 2023 · Such is the case with “The Big Chill,” released on September 28, 1983, co-written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan’s film may be one of the all-time great rebukes of the sophomore slump. “The Big Chill” defied convention in several ways: it felt like a debut film, but it was Kasdan’s follow-up to “ Body Heat .”
Written & directed by Lawrence Kasdan, “The Big Chill” (1983) has the same plot as “The Return of the Secaucus Seven” from three years earlier. The difference is that it has a blockbuster budget and bigger-name actors, but not necessarily the better story.
